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forth, to leap out; to rush out. -- To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste. -- To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.

To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.

rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve.

er there was a rumor that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head. Macaulay.

place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still. She would command the hasty sun to stay. Spenser. Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. Dryden. I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. Longfellow.

Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.

phy; anything written in shorthand. I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs. Emerson.

equently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter Shak.

1st Strain. Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

To beat or chastise with a strap.

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

Violation of chastity by force; rape. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Bullokar. -- Sub`i*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

In haste; quickly; rapidly.

ess to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

on would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man. Hast thou not made me here thy substitute Milton. Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol. De Quincey.